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IBM on what’s coming in AI: more trust, less bias and a quantum boost
IBM Corp. is justly famous for pioneering work in artificial intelligence, even decades before its Watson computer beat a couple of “Jeopardy” champions. But in recent years, its work has been eclipsed at least in the public imagination by new AI-driven speech and image recognition services and self-driving cars from companies such as Google LLC, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
In blockbuster cloud move, Amazon jumps into the data center with both feet
In yet another land grab, cloud computing king Amazon Web Services Inc. today took a giant step further into the inner sanctum of customers’ data centers. At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the Amazon.com Inc. cloud company announced Outposts, an on-premises data center system that’s based on the same hardware AWS uses to run ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
Amazon debuts Inferentia, a custom machine learning prediction chip
In another sign of Amazon.com Inc.’s broad ambitions in cloud computing, the company’s cloud company today debuted a new processor chip designed for machine learning. The chip, called Inferentia, will be available via Amazon Web Service Inc.’s EC2 computing service as well as its SageMaker AI service and Amazon Elastic Inference, a new service also ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
AWS Ground Station offers easier access to satellite data via cloud
Jumping deeper into a new market, Amazon Web Services Inc. today said it will offer easier and faster cloud access to data from space via satellite communications. AWS Ground Station, announced by the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit, will be what the company calls the first fully managed satellite ground station as a service. The Ground ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
AWS beefs up its cloud with its own processor, and much more
Kicking off its annual re:Invent cloud conference with a bang Monday night, Amazon Web Services Inc. debuted among a wide array of new services a new cloud chip of its own design. Dubbed Graviton and available to its cloud customers through AWS’ EC2 cloud compute service, the Arm-based chip was designed by the chip developer ...
Pac-12 athletic conference goes long with AWS cloud services
A likely parade of new and expanded customers coming in the next week or so for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud offerings kicked off today with the Pac-12 Conference. The western athletic conference said today it’s going “all-in” on Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud — AWS’ favorite term for customers that use an increasing number of its ...
Nvidia shares plunge after it misses earnings forecasts
Updated: Investors have been punishing graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. lately, its shares down by more than a quarter on concerns about growth forecasts. The spanking continued today. The Santa Clara, California-based maker of graphics processing unit chips used for gaming and artificial intelligence computing missed most Wall Street estimates both for the third quarter and ...
New Nvidia T4 graphics chip lands on Google’s cloud and lots of servers
Graphics chips have become the standard for enabling artificial intelligence, as the kind of parallel processing that speeded up video games turned out to be ideal for AI too. Now they’re increasingly finding their way into cloud computing, where their processing power can be rented by companies looking to offer image and speech recognition, self-driving ...
Tepid revenue and user growth dims Facebook earnings – and it won’t end soon
Updated: Facebook Inc. took its medicine a few months ago when it said revenue growth would slow down, knocking 19 percent off its stock in a single day. So it’s no surprise that today’s third-quarter earnings report and guidance for the current quarter, essentially showing no worsening of that trend, didn’t look half-bad to investors. The massive ...
Google to fund AI ‘social good’ projects with $25M in grants
At a time when fears of the impacts of artificial intelligence are on the rise, Google LLC said today that it will give away $25 million toward projects that use its artificial intelligence technologies for “social good.” The announcement, made at a demonstration area in the company’s Sunnyvale, California facilities for some of Google’s and ...